Improved cloth-press



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE..

OARLES H. WESTON AND JOHN DENNIS, OE LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPRovD CLOTH-PRESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,263, dated May 17,-1870.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN DENNIs 'and C. H. WESTON, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, and in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Press; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompany-r l ing drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in a novel device for suspending the hollow pressplates in a steam cloth-press, as will behereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to whichour invention appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed `drawings, in whichp Figure l'is an end view, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section.

A A represent the plates of a steam clothpress, which plates are on their ends provided with arms or 1ugs a a, resting upon lattice- Work, constructed in the following manner: Two bars, B B, are pivoted together in the `upper end of a bar, O,which is secured in the vwhich cross each other and are pivoted together at the center.

Other similar bars are pivoted to the bars E E, and connected in like manner,and so continued, one pair of crossbars for each plate in the press, until the top or upper set of bars, which are pivoted at` their upper ends to small bars, G Gr, secured at the ends of the follower H, which is operatedby means of a screw, I, through the top of the press. The lower ends of all the bars E E have, on their upper side, suitable notches or recesses, in which the arms a a rest. By this means the plates of the press may be placed any desired distance apart. i

The above-described lattice-work for suspending the platesismainly intended for downward-acting presses, but it is equally applicableV to upward-acting presses, and we may make the lattice-work doublethat is, havev two sets at each end-in which case the arms or lugs on the plates will rest in the center instead of at the ends of the bars E E.

Having thus fully described diir invention,

what we claim as new, and desire to secure by "\V 

